🎁 What if the best gift exchange this season wasn't about presents under a tree—but about trading your pride for the fear of the Lord?

🗡️ This expository sermon was delivered at Pilgrim Baptist Church in Cookeville, TN on Sunday, December 21, 2025, at 2:00 pm. 🗡️

In this powerful expository sermon on Proverbs 3:7, Pastor Fortunato delivers a spiritual checkup from the neck up that will challenge every believer. "Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil" isn't just good advice—it's God's prescription for both spiritual and physical wellness.

Are you tired of being your own authority? Living in an age of life coaches, motivational gurus, and "follow your truth" philosophies, we desperately need biblical wisdom that cuts through the noise. This message exposes the symptoms of self-wisdom and reveals how pride keeps us spiritually constipated, unable to process God's truth or eliminate spiritual toxins from our lives.

Discover the shocking connection between your spiritual state and physical health. Pastor Fortunato unpacks how fearing God and departing from evil literally affects your core strength, immune system, and structural integrity. From your naval (digestive health) to your marrow (life-producing blood cells) to your bones (structural strength), God's word promises healing from the inside out—but only when we exchange pride for reverence.

This isn't prosperity gospel—it's biblical wellness straight from Proverbs. Learn why stress, bitterness, unforgiveness, and pride create physical health problems, and how repentance, prayer, faithful church attendance, and godly living correlate with longer, healthier lives. Medical science is finally catching up to what Solomon knew 3,000 years ago!

Stop consulting your feelings and start consulting the Bible. If you're ready to quit being wise in your own eyes, make Bible reading non-negotiable, and let God's word correct your thinking instead of using your thinking to correct the Bible—this sermon is for you.

📖 Connect with Pilgrim Baptist Church:

🏛️ Visit our website: https://pilgrimbaptist.church/

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